need to know minimum psu requirement for ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M

[Sarah Malcolm]

I have just bought an ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M motherboard with an AMD Athlon II 3.4GHz Quadcore processor and 2GB ram as a replacement for my old board that burnt out... I am not sure that my current psu is going to be powerful enough to run it though, can someone please tell me the minimum psu requirement for this board/setup? Thanks in advance

 

[ihog]

Can you post the make and model of all your current components?

 

[Sarah Malcolm]

Can you post the make and model of all your current components?

Thanks for your reply

I don't have it set up yet, the board/processor/ram just arrived, already assembled... it's this one here:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400494849765?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D400494849765%26_rdc%3D1

The PSU I currently have in my case is a 300W "Switching Power Supply" ATX-23C300W-C PIV

I have a 500GB internal Western Digital SATA HDD - WD5001ABYS-01YNA0 and a Super Writemaster DVD writer (not sure of the model number without hauling it out, but it's pretty generic, I don't think knowing the model number will make a difference?)

No fancy extras (graphics/wireless card etc), but I do have a number of external drives (1x700GB, 3x2TB)

The only reason I got a quadcore was because I'm often doing many things at once on my PC, don't do gaming or anything like than on it, but I do tend to have a load of programs happening at the same time, files transferring, downloading, extracting etc

 

[ihog]

While I think that PSU should be enough, it doesn't seem to be reliable. I personally wouldn't want it any system of mine.

 

[Sarah Malcolm]

While I think that PSU should be enough, it doesn't seem to be reliable. I personally wouldn't want it any system of mine.

Thank you for your advice. I have just had a reply from ASRock and found out that although the motherboard was advertised as having integrated graphics, really it doesn't, so have had to go and buy a graphics card... really not happy. Apparently they do not recommend using anything less than 400-500W PSU, especially when a graphics card is connected... so it looks like I will have to buy a new PSU... hopefully I will find one relatively cheap as I was not expecting the extra cost of a graphics card as it is :S

Thank you very much for your replies ihog

 

[ihog]

The ASRock site doesn't really say that it has its own integrated graphics, rather it says it supports the graphics processor of the APUs. It says on the specs page that is supports "Integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics in A-series APU". Vague, I know.

And no problem!

 

[Sarah Malcolm]

The ASRock site doesn't really say that it has its own integrated graphics, rather it says it supports the graphics processor of the APUs. It says on the specs page that is supports "Integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics in A-series APU". Vague, I know.

And no problem!

Lol, I should have checked the ASRock site first.... on the Ebay listing page, they conveniently left out the word "supports" before the "Integrated AMD Radeon HD 7000 series graphics in A-series APU" bit, although they have the word "supports" in front of everything else they should have... seems a bit misleading to me... but hey ho, I guess I'll be happy with it once it's all set up properly

 

[ihog]

Me, too. Best of luck!

 

[recovery879]

I have just bought an ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M motherboard with an AMD Athlon II 3.4GHz Quadcore processor and 2GB ram as a replacement for my old board that burnt out... I am not sure that my current psu is going to be powerful enough to run it though, can someone please tell me the minimum psu requirement for this board/setup? Thanks in advance

I have this board and it has the integrated vga connection, which your picture shows also also.
Jim

 

[Sarah Malcolm]

I have just bought an ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-M motherboard with an AMD Athlon II 3.4GHz Quadcore processor and 2GB ram as a replacement for my old board that burnt out... I am not sure that my current psu is going to be powerful enough to run it though, can someone please tell me the minimum psu requirement for this board/setup? Thanks in advance

I have this board and it has the integrated vga connection, which your picture shows also also.
Jim

I'll be honest, I have not set the board up yet as I have not been able to afford a decent PSU to go with it... the lead up to Xmas has been somewhat tight financially :S

That's strange, everyone else I have spoken to (including ASRock) have told me that te board does not have integrated graphics... I was told that there are 2 models that are more or less exactly the same, except that the model I have does not have the chip for the integrated graphics and would be unable to be connected to a monitor by any form of connection without a suitable graphics card :S Do you think this may be because you have the other model? Or have I been misinformed by everybody else? :S

 

[ihog]

Wait, you think your board does not have the display connections that would allow you to use an APU's graphics processor? Could you take a picture of the I/O (where the USBs and speaker jacks are on the back)?